Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 28.9 to 23.3.
Financials
Financial year 2024
BERNARD GOTTA from Liège, company number BE0434564948, closed financial year 2024 with a result of € 261,883 after tax. For that financial year BERNARD GOTTA recorded revenue of € 48.9 million and equity of € 5 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € -348,104 to € 261,883. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on October 10, 2025.
€ 5 million
▲ 5% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 261,883
▲ still € 348,104 loss in 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 17% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2024. Retained profit grew to € 4.7 million.
People and assets in 2024
23.3
▼ 4.5 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▼ 3% vs 2023
€ 70,800 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 748,231
▼ 5% vs 2023
Of which on lease € 86,179.
Debts at end 2024
€ 1.5 million
▼ 18% vs 2023
€ 438,740 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 4.9 million
▲ 35% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 39 days on average.
€ 375,792
▲ 8% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Change 2023 → 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 41,009,330 | € 42,411,360 | € 45,231,001 | € 48,938,497 | ▲ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 965,754 | € 142,462 | € -348,104 | € 261,883 | ▲ € 609,987 |
| Equity | € 4,969,938 | € 5,107,038 | € 4,757,099 | € 5,017,387 | ▲ 5% |
| Total debts | € 4,962,952 | € 5,081,357 | € 5,766,375 | € 6,750,833 | ▲ 17% |
| Cash | € 1,320,683 | € 1,158,906 | € 931,947 | € 1,090,331 | ▲ 17% |
| Land & buildings | € 650,821 | € 933,064 | € 594,501 | € 647,439 | ▲ 9% |
| Retained profit | € 4,655,940 | € 4,798,402 | € 4,450,297 | € 4,712,180 | ▲ 6% |
| Dividend | € 200,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,136,885 | € 894,116 | € 1,776,459 | € 1,455,004 | ▼ 18% |
| Balance sheet total | € 9,933,420 | € 10,188,416 | € 10,523,486 | € 11,768,220 | ▲ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 33.9 | 28.9 | 27.8 | 23.3 | ▼ 4.5 |
Key figures of BERNARD GOTTA, fiscal years 2021 to 2024, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.The annual account for fiscal year 2025 has not been filed yet; it was expected before 31 July 2026.
What happened to BERNARD GOTTA?
What happened at BERNARD GOTTA in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Sophie HERMANS stepped down as director. NBB
- ARMA SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2024: profit of € 261,883. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Sophie HERMANS became a director. NBB
- ARMA SRL became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Liège. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 965,754 profit in 2021 to € 261,883 profit in 2024.
Paid € 542,525 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2021, with € 965,754 profit.
Paid out € 200,000 in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of ARMA comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
BERNARD GOTTAThe shares are held by ARMA (45.9%).
Directors
According to the 2024 annual accounts
since 2017 · until 2028
since 2017 · until 2028
Shareholders
45.9%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue de Droixhe 23
4020 Liège
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0434.564.948
- VAT number
- BE 0434.564.948
- Registered office
- Rue de Droixhe 23, 4020 Liège
- Names & denominations
- BERNARD GOTTA
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 8 June 1988
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